Coin-wrapper.



Patented Apr. 30, I90l.

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(Application filed Dec- 28, 1900.)

(N0 Modal.)

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PATENT OFFICE.

WlLIllAM J. YOUMANS, OF NEWPORT, KENTUCKY, ASSIGNOR TO THE W. B.

CARPENTER COMPANY, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO.

COI N -WRAPPER.

PE IF TI N forming-part of Letters Patent No. 673,373, dated April 30, 1901.

Application filed December 28, 190i). Serial No. 41,417. (No model.) I

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, WILLIAM J. YoUMANs, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of Newport, in the county of Campbell and State of Kentucky, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Coin Wrappers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to certain improvemen ts in coin-wrappers, and has forits object to provide a wrapper of a simple and inexpensive nature having improved index means for use in' showing or indicating the value of the coin contained in the wrapper.

The invention consists in certain novel features of the index means of the improved coin-wrapper, whereby the device is made simpler and otherwise better adapted and more, convenient for use, all as will be hereinaft'e'r fully set forth.

The novel features of the invention will be carefully defined in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, which serve to illustrate myinvention, Figure 1 is a view showing the improved coin-wrapper in the flat. Fig. 2 is a View showing the wrapper applied to aroll of coins. Fig. 3is a sectional view taken through the wrapper and roll of coins shown in Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a fragmentary view showing the gummed stripe on the under or inner face of the wrapper.

The improved Wrapper is, as herein shown, formed from a rectangular sheet 1, of paper or the like, of suitable dimensions to adapt it for being wrapped abouta roll of the largest coins upon which it is desired to use the improved wrapper, and at one end portion of said sheet 1 is provided a gunimed stripe 2, preferably upon the under or inner surface of the sheet and adapted for use in sealing the wrapper after the package or roll of coin has been enveloped therein.

The improved wrapper is provided with an index for indicating or showing the contents of the package or roll of coin on which the improved wrapper is used, and said index comprises,as shown in the drawings, two sets or series of numbers or characters 3 and 4, printed or otherwise produced in parallel lines lengthwise upon the onter surface of the sheet 1 and adapted to be displayed at openings 5 and 6 face of the sheetl.

in one end portion of the sheet 1 when the wrapper is applied to the roll of coins. herein shown, the set or series of characters 3 is adapted to indicate the denominations of the coins inclosed within the wrapper, while the set or series tis adapted for use in indicating the total value of the roll or package of coins. The characters of series 3, as herein ($1,77 CS5O777 (25)77 Gi577 fi(1},77 and 104:, while those of set or series 4 are ac 2 u and 5, the first character $20. of the series 4 being alined with the first character $1 of the series 3, and so on.

The openings 5-and 6 in the end portion of the sheet 1 are also alined with each other, and said openings are spaced apart sufiiciently to permit the word In to be printed between the openings upon the front or outer The sheet is also provided with the words This package contains printed, as shown at 7, above the openings 5 and 6. Below the openings 5 and 6 is printed the word From, followed by lines to receive a name and address, as shown at 8. This printed matter upon the end portion of the sheet 1 is preferably provided upon the face of the wrapper, but is not essential to my invention and may be omitted or changed at will.

In using the improved wrapper the sheet 1 is wrapped around the roll ofcoins, (indicated at m in Fig. 3,) audits gummed end portion 2 is pasted down, as clearly shown in Fig. 3,

the lateral edge portions of the sheet at the ends of the roll of coins being twisted or crimped, so as to prevent the coins from dropping out at the ends of the wrapper. The

length of the wrapper and the arrangement of the index characters 3 and 4 thereon with relation to the openings 5 and 6 are such that when the sheet 1 is. thus wrapped about the roll of coins the ends of the sheet 1 will lap one outside the other, and one or another of the characters of each series 3 and 4 will be opposite the corresponding opening in the end portion of the sheet, so as to be visible through said opening to indicate the contents of the package. The characters of the series 3 and 4 are spaced apart from each other at distances corresponding to the differences in coins indicated by said characters, so that as the gummed end portion, in which openings 5 and6 are formed, is caused to be lapped over the other'end portion fart-herin propor ti'on tothe, decrease 'in the diameter of the coin such increaseinthe length ofthelap'ped portion of thesheet will bring the openings 5 and 6 in registry with the characters-3 and 4, indicating the proper coin]denomination and value. The index characters 3 aud t are l to be read at openings 5 and 6 in connection with the printed matter at 7,so that such printed matter will read This package contains $20 in$1,. &c., the characters 3 and 4 being of course interchangeable dependent on the denomination of the coins in th Wrapper.

From the above description it will be seen that the improved coin-Wrapper made according to' my invention is of an extremely simple and inexpensive nature and is especially well adapted for use, since the index characters alford a ready means for determining the contents of each package without requiring any particular attention on the part of the person making up the packages and without danger of mistakes. It will also be obvious from the above description that the improved coin- Wrapper'is capable of some modification without material departure from the principles and spirit of theinvention, and for this reason I do not wish to be understood as limiting myself to the precise form and arrangement of the device as herein set forth.

'Havingthiis' described 'i'ny'iiiv'efition, what of "coins and having'an opening formedin it,

the said sheethavingcharacters produced on it adjacentto the opening and also having on it other characters adapted to be visible through the said opening, so as to be capable of being read in connection with the characters which are produced adjacent to-the opening, when the sheet is wrapped about a roll ot' coins, substantially as set forth.

2 A coin-Wrapper consisting of a sheet of material adaptedto be wrapped about a roll of coins, said sheet having a series of characters produced upon it and having an opening at which said characters are successively visible when the Wrapper is applied to a roll of coins, substantially asset forth.

3. A coin-wrapper consisting of a sheet of material adapted to be wrapped about a roll of coins, said sheet being provided with two series of characters produced upon it and having two ope'ningsat which said characters are successively visible when the wrapper is applied to a roll of coins, substantially as set forth. p

.Signed at Cincinnati, Ohio, this 22d day of December, 1900.

WILLIAM J. YOUMANS.

Witnesses:

O. O. MALTBY, JOHN ELIAS JONES. 

